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minus-squaresudoshakes@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoWhy in gods name would anyone not be running RAID or virtual disk pools for important storage? It’s 2025.
minus-square3abas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoYes, and also: RAID is not backup.
minus-squaresudoshakes@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIt is with two separate ZFS pools mirroring one another.
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoIt’s redundancy for hardware failure. Mirroring is generally pretty bad for backup because it misses some of the most likely cause of data loss. Accidental deletions and malware such as ransomware.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoIf I could double up on the drives I would have more redundant backups. That’s what RAID is, just having more drives with backups in case a drive fails.
Why in gods name would anyone not be running RAID or virtual disk pools for important storage?
It’s 2025.
Yes, and also: RAID is not backup.
It is with two separate ZFS pools mirroring one another.
It’s redundancy for hardware failure.
Mirroring is generally pretty bad for backup because it misses some of the most likely cause of data loss. Accidental deletions and malware such as ransomware.
If I could double up on the drives I would have more redundant backups.
That’s what RAID is, just having more drives with backups in case a drive fails.